General chat

[Dimity]

Brrr hope the coldpacks help and you can get warm again @Patches59. 

How are the circular cushions coming on? Is there any sort of cabling or other design?

I'm having to push myself to get anything done.There's a lot to catch up on after letting things slide, but I made a start this afternoon. 

The native frangipani tree is covered with buds. I expect it will flower as soon as there's a warmer day. It's beautiful but makes a lot of work when the flowers drop. 

[Patches59]

Frangipani tree flowers are beautiful, what colour will these ones be?  Is it in your garden or community garden @Dimity ?

Front garden of every new house has a tree and plants in it before settlement here.  Developers decided to put cherry plum tree in my front garden …. yuk!!     I submitted request for tree to be removed and replaced with tree I wanted.  I ended up doing it myself and planted coastal rosemary, needs a trim again which I’ll get to at some stage.

totally understandable your struggling to get things done.  I find taking this short period of time, maximum 2hrs, doing things followed by some down time for me helps me recharge.  Maybe something similar might help you.  

knitting pattern I’m using is pattern I’ve had for many years. no idea where the original double sided paper of picture and instructions has gone, I now use copy of it.  Pattern is for square textured knitted cushion.  One I’m working on I doubled the number of stitches as want it bigger when finished.  Number of stitches in the pattern procedures one side of average cushion size.  I have found one which is finished being knitted and is one side of the cushion, I’ll try to get it out of the box and take a photo within next couple of days depending on pain level

[Dimity]

It's a clever pattern @Patches59 and looks good. I bought some acrylic yarn over the last couple of weeks - blues greens and yellow ochre but I haven't started anything.

My native frangipani starts white and turns butter yellow. It's a rainforest tree unrelated to usual tropical frangipani plants. It's scented, particularly on warm nights. It's technically on the common property but in a small garden outside my livingroom window that I look after.

I just did chores for 1.5 hrs and will have a late lunch. I'll try to resist sitting down to news and Facebook.